finance company

noun

: a company that makes usually small short-term loans usually to individuals

Examples of finance company in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The finance company compared the 50 states across three categories: dating economics (like movie costs and housing affordability), dating opportunities (like the share of single adults), and romance and fun (like restaurants per capita and nightlife options). Grace Tucker, The Enquirer, 13 Feb. 2024 How do people pay for cars at Barrett-Jackson? Barrett-Jackson allows four different options to purchase a car at its auctions: Woodside Credit, a nationwide collector car finance company and is exclusively endorsed by Barrett-Jackson. The Arizona Republic, 30 Jan. 2024 Short-seller Carson Block's latest target is a real-estate finance company managed by Blackstone. Peter Rudegeair, WSJ, 6 Dec. 2023 Tennessee, for example, enacted a law forbidding the state treasurer to do business with a financial institution that refuses to finance companies in the fossil fuel industry (even though the oil and gas industry is a minor player in the state). Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2023 In a July survey, the consumer finance company Bankrate found that 47% of U.S. adults had at least one unspent gift card or voucher with an average value of $187. Dee-Ann Durbin, Fortune, 26 Dec. 2023 They weren’t accepted by the San Francisco bankers and the lawyers and the standard finance companies. David Marchese Photograph By Mamadi Doumbouya, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2023 In 1978 Munger was named vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway and in 1983 chairman of Wesco Financial Corp., a finance company that’s 80% controlled by Berkshire. Matt Schifrin, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023 Electronics giant Philips works with a finance company to offer loans for equipment and dangles discounts to clinics that do more procedures. Katie Thomas, BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2023

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Word History

First Known Use

1915, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of finance company was in 1915

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“Finance company.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/finance%20company. Accessed 19 Mar. 2024.

Kids Definition

finance company

noun
: a company that specializes in making small loans usually to individuals

Legal Definition

finance company

see company

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